In Ephesians 1:3-8, the Apostle Paul summarizes “the gospel” as “the grace of God.” Grace is the central theme of God’s story of redemption, for it encapsulates what happened in that great transaction. In defiance of what we really deserve […]
The Spirit’s role in our redemption is vital but often overlooked for the saint who has walked with God for many years. This can be seen in part by the lack of good hymns on the person and work of […]
The Hebrew word hallelujah (or alleluia) which means literally “praise the Lord,” has been used as an exclamation of praise not only by the ancient Hebrews, but in the early Church, throughout the history of the Church, and even today. […]
The Bible records the response that people have when confronted with the presence of God in His holiness and might – they tremble in fear, usually sink to the ground prostrate, and seem to wish they were dead (Daniel actually […]
This song seeks to portray the amazing contrast between what Jesus possessed as the divine Son of God and what He gave up to redeem His people from their sins. 1 John 4:10 says “In this is love, not that […]
This is a song about how we need Jesus to be more than simply a payment voucher to cover the debt we owe to God because of our rebellion. Even if our record were wiped clean of offenses, we wouldn’t […]
This is a song about the exceeding beauty of Jesus. Though we cannot see Jesus, we know Him to be beautiful both by our knowledge of His character and works in Scripture, and by our experiential knowledge of Him. As […]
The Bible makes it clear that Christians will experience suffering, both as loving chastisement from our wise Father meant to grow us in holiness and as the result of living in a fallen and decaying world where sickness and death […]
O weary saint is a song written particularly for those facing despair at the prospect of their own death or upon the death of a loved one. We are convinced that death is one topic that Christians don’t sing enough […]
A Christian is one who has been set free from the power and penalty of sin, both in this life and in the next, through the only means that God has given for such redemption, the substitutionary death of Jesus […]